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03/07/08 - Man Jailed on Child Porn, Assault Charges
A Genesee man is jail on multiple charges of statuary sexual assault for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old female in the summer of 2006. 22-year-old Christopher Inzana has also been charged with sexual abuse of children after police found child pornography on his computer. He also allegedly downloaded child porn onto the computer at the Genesee Fire Department, where he was secretary/treasurer. Police say his computers are being searched for additional child pornography, so they don't have an exact count yet has to how many files he allegedly had. Inzana is in Potter County jail on 75 thousand dollars bail for the sexual assault charges and 65 thousand dollars for the child porn charges.
03/10/08 - Man Pleads Guilty for Pot-Growing Op
A Titusville man has pleaded guilty in connection to what authorities say is one of the largest marijuana-growing operations in state history. 54-year-old James Keyes was arrested in June for conspiring with 5 other people to manufacturer, posses and distribute more that 1,000 marijuana plants. Investigators say they found 1,183 full-grown marijuana plants throughout eastern Crawford County in August 2006. Keyes faces life imprisonment at his sentencing Aug. 4.
03/07/08 - Drake Well Gets Money for Makeover
The state is giving the Drake Well Museum in Titusville $6 million to get a complete makeover ahead of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the oil industry.
The anniversary celebrations will be held in August 2009. The state-owned museum is central to those events. Drake Well has not been renovated since the 1960s. The funding was initially promised in 2005, but the state has only fully allocated it this week. The museum is a commemoration of Col. Edwin Drake's successful oil well on Aug. 27, 1859. Drake's well began an international quest for petroleum.
The museum is home to a wide collection of items that reflect the region's claim to being the birthplace of the oil industry.
03/10/08 - Gipson Pleads Guilty to 1996 Murder
Donald Gipson has changed his plea to guilty in the 1996 murder of 81-year-old Louis Jones of Buffalo. Gipson, the half-brother of Buffalo Police Commissioner H. McCarthy Gipson, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Monday afternoon in Warren County Court. Jones' body was found in a wrecked car in Warren County. At the time Gipson told police they were car-jacked. An autopsy later showed that Jones died of a stab wound to the heart.State police began a cold-case investigation into the murder in October.
03/10/08 - Gingerich Faces Trial on Gun Charges
Edward Gingerich will face trial on a charge he illegally possessed a firearm while hunting last fall. State police charged Gingerich in early February after learning he went deer hunting Nov. 26. Gingerich has been barred from using or possessing a weapon since 1994, when he was found guilty but mentally ill of involuntary manslaughter in the 1993 murder of his wife. Last spring he took his daughter from her grandparents' home without permission. They were found 4 days later in Kushequa.
Gingerich is free on $100,000 bond. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the gun charge.
A Genesee man is jail on multiple charges of statuary sexual assault for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old female in the summer of 2006. 22-year-old Christopher Inzana has also been charged with sexual abuse of children after police found child pornography on his computer. He also allegedly downloaded child porn onto the computer at the Genesee Fire Department, where he was secretary/treasurer. Police say his computers are being searched for additional child pornography, so they don't have an exact count yet has to how many files he allegedly had. Inzana is in Potter County jail on 75 thousand dollars bail for the sexual assault charges and 65 thousand dollars for the child porn charges.
03/10/08 - Man Pleads Guilty for Pot-Growing Op
A Titusville man has pleaded guilty in connection to what authorities say is one of the largest marijuana-growing operations in state history. 54-year-old James Keyes was arrested in June for conspiring with 5 other people to manufacturer, posses and distribute more that 1,000 marijuana plants. Investigators say they found 1,183 full-grown marijuana plants throughout eastern Crawford County in August 2006. Keyes faces life imprisonment at his sentencing Aug. 4.
03/07/08 - Drake Well Gets Money for Makeover
The state is giving the Drake Well Museum in Titusville $6 million to get a complete makeover ahead of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the oil industry.
The anniversary celebrations will be held in August 2009. The state-owned museum is central to those events. Drake Well has not been renovated since the 1960s. The funding was initially promised in 2005, but the state has only fully allocated it this week. The museum is a commemoration of Col. Edwin Drake's successful oil well on Aug. 27, 1859. Drake's well began an international quest for petroleum.
The museum is home to a wide collection of items that reflect the region's claim to being the birthplace of the oil industry.
03/10/08 - Gipson Pleads Guilty to 1996 Murder
Donald Gipson has changed his plea to guilty in the 1996 murder of 81-year-old Louis Jones of Buffalo. Gipson, the half-brother of Buffalo Police Commissioner H. McCarthy Gipson, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Monday afternoon in Warren County Court. Jones' body was found in a wrecked car in Warren County. At the time Gipson told police they were car-jacked. An autopsy later showed that Jones died of a stab wound to the heart.State police began a cold-case investigation into the murder in October.
03/10/08 - Gingerich Faces Trial on Gun Charges
Edward Gingerich will face trial on a charge he illegally possessed a firearm while hunting last fall. State police charged Gingerich in early February after learning he went deer hunting Nov. 26. Gingerich has been barred from using or possessing a weapon since 1994, when he was found guilty but mentally ill of involuntary manslaughter in the 1993 murder of his wife. Last spring he took his daughter from her grandparents' home without permission. They were found 4 days later in Kushequa.
Gingerich is free on $100,000 bond. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the gun charge.
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